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Palestinian police, militants clash

May 07, 2008

JERUSALEM — Palestinian police dispatched last week to an unruly West Bank district clashed Tuesday with Islamic militants there, wounding two. Tuesday's fighting occurred in the town of Qabatiyah, three miles south of Jenin. The commander of Palestinian forces in the West Bank said police shot into a group of about 20 Islamic Jihad members who had approached a police station Tuesday trying to force the release of an arrested man.

Olmert scandal: A New York-area businessman and philanthropist has emerged as a key figure in an Israeli investigation into the financial dealings of Ehud Olmert that have cast a new cloud over the embattled prime minister. Morris "Moshe" Talansky of Woodmere, Long Island, was questioned by police in Israel about reported payments he made to Olmert in the 1990s, when the prime minister was Jerusalem's mayor, according to the New York Post.